A website for the Brazilian president has been hacked, plastered with messages calling for the death penalty for legislators in a country where many are frustrated with public corruption. FILE – In this Dec. 7, 2016 file photo, Brazil’s President Michel Temer arrives to take part in a ceremony at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil.
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Brazilian police: Greek ambassador killed by wife’s lover
Authorities beli… . Francoise Amiridis, the wife of Greece’s Ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis, arrives at a police station to be interrogated in connection with her husband’s disappearance in Belford Roxo, Brazil, Friday, Dec… .
Rio Gives Up on Olympic Pledge as Bay Clean-Up Workers Fired
Rio de Janeiro is abandoning its promise to treat the raw sewage polluting the Guanabara Bay as workers building a pipeline network and treatment plant are being fired and the state sinks into fiscal crisis. A $450 million loan agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank to build the infrastructure needed to collect and treat sewage will expire in March and the Brazilian Treasury won’t allow its extension, according to Rio’s environment secretariat.